Athens Lunatic Asylum

About Athens Lunatic Asylum

Athens has one of the most famous insane asylums, Athens Lunatic Asylum, which operated from 1874 until 1993. Since closing, the hospital has been the at the center of numerous ghost stories, most of which are kept alive by the students at the university, which now owns the asylum grounds. The most famous of these concerns Margaret, a deaf-mute patient who accidentally became trapped in an abandoned ward, and eventually died of exposure. Her decomposing body can supposedly still be seen today.

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